PENSIONERS' FLATS
PROVISION BY AUCKLAND CITY COUNCILS
[THE PRESS Special Servlce-l AUCKLAND, April 30. . In an .effort to make. some. pro-r - vision for the decent housing of old ■ age pensioners and other old people. in poor circumstances/ the Auckland City Council proposes shortly to enir ■ bark on the erection of a block of small flats. The site chosen is on the corner of Ponsonby road and Picton - street The tentative plans, which have . been before the town planning committee of the council, which has been considering the scheme 1 for some months, provide for a two-storey brick building containing 23, flats, with five lock-up shops on the Pon- ' sonby road frontage. Detailed plans have yet to be prepared, and , in. working out arrangements the com-; mittee will confer with representa- . tives of the old people concerned. -
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22081, 1 May 1937, Page 15
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